About “Smoke Break”

“Smoke Break” is about Chance’s relationship with his girlfriend, and how they need to have time for themselves every once in a while now that they have a baby. Throughout the song, Chance uses the terms “bowl” and “roll” as an allegory to illustrate how they don’t have as much time as they did before.

What have the artists said about the song?

One of my favourite records is a song I made with Future on it called “Smoke Break” and I think Future was perfect for it cause he’s a father too and that record, I remember I started making it and my girlfriend came in and she didn’t like it at first, now it’s her favourite song. But the song talks about, you know, it’s another song that uses drugs as a metaphor for relationships or sex or whatever but you know, there really is a whole turning point in terms of your priorities and your schedule and we really did lose for a second, you know, the respect of time for ourselves and the respect of time to just take a break, put the baby down for a second and like, enjoy each other’s company.